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BIG Lang vocab 1
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| acquiesce | to assent tacitly; submit or comply silently or without protest |
| admonish | to caution, advise, counsel against something |
| affront | to insult; to offend |
| akin | related by blood |
| allocation | the act of setting apart for a purpose or specific plan, designate |
| ambulatory | capable of walking or moving around |
| amity | friendship, peaceful harmony; mutual understanding |
| aplomb | unwavering assurance or poise; the vertical or perpendicular position |
| arduous | requiring great exertion; laborious; difficult |
| austere | imposing or suggesting physical hardship; strict; rigorously self-disciplined |
| avocation | something one does in addition to regular work esp. for pleasure; hobby |
| barrage | overwhelming quantity or explosion, as of words |
| beguile | to influence by trickery, flattery, etc. |
| blasé | indifferent to or bored with life; apathetic to pleasure |
| brazen | showing or expressing boldness; shameless or important |
| capacious | capable of holding much; spacious or roomy |
| censure | strong expression of blame or disapproval |
| choleric | extremely irritable or easily angered; angry; irate |
| cognizant | fully informed; to have awareness, realization, or knowledge |
| collusion | a secret agreement, usually for fraud or conspiracy |
| corpulent | large or bulky of body; somewhat overweight |
| corroborate | to make more certain; to support with evidence |
| crass | without refinement, delicacy, or sensitivity |
| defray | to bear or pay all or part (the costs, expenses, etc.) |
| dint | force; power |
| disparity | inequality or difference |
| droll | amusing in an odd way; whimsical |
| elegiac | expressing sorrow or lamentation |
| enjoin | to prescribe (a course of action) with authority or emphasis |
| epistle | letter; written communication |
| exonerate | to clear, as of an accusation; free from guilt or blame |
| expectorate | to eject from the mouth; spit |
| extricate | to free or release from entanglement; disengage |
| feckless | ineffective; incompetent |
| fecund | very productive or creative intellectually |
| fortuitous | happening or produced by chance; accidental |
| hospice | house of shelter for travelers |
| impasse | dead end; a position or situation from which there is no escape |
| impetus | a moving force; impulse; stimulus |
| indolent | disinclined to work; habitually lazy |
| inexorable | not to be moved; unalterable; unyielding |
| infirmity | a physical weakness or ailment |
| inundate | to flood; cover or overspread with water |
| inscrutable | not clearly expressed; hard to interpret; not easily understood |
| jocund | cheerful; merry; full of good humor |
| lassitude | weariness of body or mind from strain, oppressive climate, etc. |
| licentious | sexually unrestrained; lascivious; libertine; lewd |
| lugubrious | mournful, dismal, gloomy |
| mitigate | to lessen in force or intensity, as wrath, grief, harshness, or pain |
| moribund | dying; near death; coming to an end |
| nebulous | hazy, cloudy, vague, confused |
| nefarious | extremely wicked; evil |
| ostentatious | intended to attract notice, to impress others |
| palpate | to examine or explore by touching, esp. for diagnosing disease/illness |
| palpitate | to pulsate with unusual rapidity from exertion, emotion, disease |
| paradigm | something that serves as a pattern or model, a precedent |
| pecuniary | of or pertaining to money |
| perjury | willingly giving a false testimony while under oath |
| perspicuity | clearness or lucidity, as of statement; well expressed |
| profilgate | utterly and shamelessly immoral or dissipated |
| prognosticate | to predict or foretell future events |
| prostrate | to cast oneself face down on the ground in humility |
| pusillanimous | lacking courage; cowardly; faint-hearted |
| remonstrance | to say or plead in protest, objection, or disappproval |
| reticent | habitually silent or uncommunicative |
| retinue | group following some distinguished person |
| ribald | vulgar or indecent in language or speech |
| sanguine | cheerfully optimistic, hopeful, confident |
| schism | division or disunion, esp. into mutually opposed parties |
| scintillate | to sparkle; flash; to twinkle |
| strident | having a shrill, irritating quality or character |
| subversive | seeking to overthrow or destroy |
| suppliant | asking humbly and earnestly |
| torrid | oppressively hot, parched with heat |
| urbane | reflecting elegance or sophistication |
| vacuous | empty of matter; without contents |
| vicarious | performed, exercised, received, or suffered in place of another |
| voluble | characterized by a ready and continuous flow of words; fluent |
| wizened | withered; shriveled; wrinkled |
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